warning, the following rant is of a geekish nature and has several prerequisites if you are to understand the anecdotal value of it. otherwise the “short description” is less amusing, but not jibberish. PREREQUISITES: knowledge of hard drive partitions (at least that they exist) basic understanding of linux basic understanding of GRUB is helpful basic […]

i realized today that i’ve been really hyper today and yesterday.  this coming off a fairly long string of being tired, in a bad mood, somewhat depressed, and feeling generally worthless and hopeless with regards to the job situation.  nothing’s changed since then, but my mood has swung suddenly and drastically.  which then makes me […]

i added some pages on the side under a new section called worldbuilding.  the purpose of this new section is to have a place to dump the different fictional worlds i’ve developed over the years.  some of these are closed, over and done with and some are still growing.  putting them on the blog means […]

i got dragged into facebook a while ago by tess, but i didn’t do much to my profile because it looked like another myspace toy crossed with linkedin and a) i don’t care about myspace — i have a better blog, and b) i’m already on linkedin…i got dragged back in today because a couple […]

i work in a hostile environment. it’s not hostile to anyone else, at least, not usually. just me. don’t believe me? how’s this: i am a tier 2 technical analyst, which, if we are going to continue with the military metaphor, isn’t quite the first wave of infantry (read: cannon fodder) who are considered utter […]

because i like gadgets, i added some more on the sidebar. last.fm did some new stuff to their chart thingies (now referred to as widgets), and they are pretty spiff. of course, this required me to hack the style.css so the width of the sidebar actually fits the new widgets.  now i think i need […]

probably no one really noticed, but the server was down for a bit yesterday.  it seems to have hung sometime in the afternoon and needed to be rebooted.  it seems to be a-ok now…

random 001::yesterday i received 7 emails from my backup server for a daily status update which i set up a long time ago.  when i went to see how the mail server was set up to find out why i got these all of a sudden, i found out the mail server was my (previously […]

i emailed the, uh, life group moderator and she was able to pass the message along to my clone.  he emailed me from her account and his email address has a number at the end (which apparently he forgets to put in).  so now at least i have a place to forward the misdirected emails…

so a couple months ago, i think, i acquired a clone.  this clone is named has the same first and last namd and middle initial, and lives in virginia, i think.  his wife is approximately as pregnant as erin and i can’t remember her name (it’s not erin), and she sent out some update on […]

so i bugged my HR guy about the insurance thing, even though i know he doesn’t do benefits stuff.  he got with a couple contacts who do handle that stuff and made a few phone calls and, ultimately, they’re actually fixing the insurance biz.  i confess, i really never expected that to happen.  it’s past […]

part, the first… i updated the theme i was using to the latest version.  the background handling is a little more stable, and it doesn’t default to a white background because i deleted the ones it came with anymore.   in the process the stuff on the side bar got reorganized a bit. part, the second […]